For a few years my dad was making more retired than I was working. Times sure have changed, definately for the worse if you are a working / middle class poerson.

Think about it, all of this cost cutting, trimming benefits, doing away with pensions and selling everyone on the 401k scam etc... Who has it helped? Only the rich and the large corporations. The general financial state of our society has gone way down in my opinion.

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See that's the problem I had (I'm close to your age but a few years back) companies were paying out almost as much as a full time employee for former employees. There was supposed to be a managed fund, but over time managers would raid the cookie jar.

So for a young guy starting out there was never the raises that prior generations got, without incentive to do better a "eh, good enough" attitude prevailed. Not only among workers but in supervisory positions too.

I've found I've only done well in small & hungry companies. Where the founder still has his hands on day to day management. Larger companies that treat employees as replaceable, interchangeable, "labor units" are frankly on a fast track to inferior products and corporate takeover.

I think the problem is, once upon a time we used to let ADULTS run companies (and countries for that matter)

See that's the problem I had (I'm close to your age but a few years back) companies were paying out almost as much as a full time employee for former employees. There was supposed to be a managed fund, but over time managers would raid the cookie jar.

So for a young guy starting out there was never the raises that prior generations got, without incentive to do better a "eh, good enough" attitude prevailed. Not only among workers but in supervisory positions too.

I've found I've only done well in small & hungry companies. Where the founder still has his hands on day to day management. Larger companies that treat employees as replaceable, interchangeable, "labor units" are frankly on a fast track to inferior products and corporate takeover.

I think the problem is, once upon a time we used to let ADULTS run companies (and countries for that matter)

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I guess a happy medium would be best. Somewhere between the days my father knew and the days we now know.